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Stargazer

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  1. Thanks! The following is not exactly a song, but 3 riffs. There are also my Fortin Nameless Settings in the end. I used the Focusrite Scarlett interface. The player doesn't want to show the thumbnail picture. Maybe it will show later. 1st riff from this song: 2nd riff from this song
  2. I have played Bach pieces on piano when I played classical piano at the age of 15. I played the Toccata And Fuga In D-minor (BWV 565) a lot. But I hardly played it on organ. I also thought that this piece reminds me of "The Escapist." But it was random in the sense, that I didn't try to create an "Escapist" sound. And Of course, I have listened to Nigtwish a lot, so fo course my preferences shine through. I have never been a single band fan-person. I have propably listened to other bands more thatn Nightwish. But my music listening counts in thousands of hours, so Nightwish is still maybe a couple of hundred hours. Plus I play instruments myself. This is my 2-hour project. Finnish War Drums.
  3. This was my first playing session after my MIDI-keyboard had been in the box for 6 months.
  4. There is a reason. I forgot to upload the thumbnail picture as with the other songs. The Internet began doing tricks, so it was just safer to leave it be with the other background. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, ya'know.
  5. This is my new composition. It happens to be 9 minutes and 11 seconds long. Almost all note data is programmed with mouse and computer keyboard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-5vaJLJ2-s
  6. Update Nov 2021: I added a nice Channel Logo. It was quite difficult, because the logo just wouldn't load. Now, after 1 month I succeeded.
  7. It is very difficult to simplify this subject into one statement. Nightwish was an established band already back then (year 2000.) Maybe not super famous. I can't remember so much from that time, because I was 6 years old in the year 2000. I don't completely agree to the statement, that ALL publicitiy is good for marketing etc. But I want to point out, that there is risk promoting a new band too widely too quickly. A lead singer for a band may be, for instance, 20 years old. Young people need quite a lot of mental and other support as well. So, for a young artist, if a band encounters some kind of harsh media brutality early on, it affects mental health and other things. We have spoken about mental health for at least 20 years, right? In an outbreak, the band may not get all the support they would need, because everybody wants to secure their own side. But the band should get support of course. A good psychologist is a valuable tool at this point, for instance. I am 27 years old (and male), and I can handle myself independently in this world. Not all people survive these media outbreaks. So, if a media outbreak occurs, and, let's say two of the band members have to take a break (because of burnout or mental health reasons). They may need, for instance, 6 months of recovery. If fitting session musicians aren't found OR the fanbase doesn't recognize the new session musicians, the whole band could break up permanantly. Note, money flows into everyones pocket, as long as the band is performing and making albums etc. So after this kind of band breakout, almost all moneyflow stops basically to the wall (also to the recording company. On the other hand, let's say the singer is 20 years old and female. She is praised for 5 years and when an outbreak happens, the inbox sems to flow of only hate comments, the singer may feel somewhat "betrayed". And maybe the singer doesn't want to do any music any more, because she feels the music business is too brutal, even though she would be a reasonable artist. Band members (and all other people and workers) are human and need quite a ot of emotional support. And also, media outbreaks can just occur just "randomly" without anybody doing anything wrong. So, people in charge need to make sure, that if a band is supported very fast and very haevily, that especially young band members get all the support they need (Not the least emotional/mental support.) I cannot say so much for the Eurovision thing, but after studying the "End Of An Era" -hassle 2005 later in life (I was 11 back then, it came form the Finnish news.), it (the End Of An Era thing) should definitely be avoided. THAT was not risk free. But I cannot point any fingers, and I won't. In these kind of situations, there is so much false or incorrect information out there, that it is really difficult to point out whose fault something was (and there are always many people and parties involved.) It is never only 1 person's fault. Everybody makes mistakes. But make less mistakes. From the artist's side. You need to be determined that this vocation (music in this case) is really what you want to do. An artist needs passion for his/her art (I am speaking as an artist). When a storm arises, an artist without passion usually applies for a diferent job quite fast, if you know what I mean. And for an artist, no matter how much support you get, everything is not done for you. Sometimes you need to solve some problems yourself, maybe the best mixer of record company just left in the middle of the album making process and nobody knows what to do. Don't do extremely stupid stuff (many obstacles in this world could have been avoided this way.) Use a little bit of wit sometimes. Answer to your last question. When you have gone through "The Fire And Flames" in your career (Nightwish in this case) I think nobody questions your credibility as a metal band (you don't have to love the music.) Even though you don't like the music or somebody's work, please have a little bit of respect for people's work. It is not too much required.
  8. I think that nobody knows for sure. We can just guess. But in hindsight, it maybe wasn’t the smartest move to push Nightwish for Eurovision so hard…
  9. Well you are not in school here on the forum, so you don’t have to pass any tests :P.
  10. More Guitar Shredding. I used a Boss Katana Amplifier this time. The video contains the exact Amplifier values, if you want to use my Katana preset. It was filmed in Kuopion Konservatorio (Kuopio Conservatory.) There are many famous riffs in the footage. Maybe you can spot some.
  11. Yes. I played drums when I was 13, then I took classical paino lessons for 3 years, when I was about 15. Then I had a small break, then I made midi music with a DAW (Logic in this case.) I fully produce my own songs. I have studied music for the last 2,5 years in Finland full-time, so I have also studied a lot of Pop/Jazz-theory during this time. I have played live as well. I have also studied sound-physics (If you have to know only one thing about sound physics, study the harmonic series/overtone series.) My strongest instruments are the drums, the piano, and now the electric guitar. Though because of my vast background, I can learn basically any instrument quite fast. This is my CV basically. Here is the link to the mathematical version of the harmonic series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_(mathematics) The musical version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_(music) Every note on an isntrument plays every note of the harmonic series, relative to the "fundament" (base note). For instance, if you play "C" on a guitar, the "C" is the base note, the fundament, and every other notes (or frequency) from the harmonic series are played as well, but much quieter. The thickness of the frequency varies, and all instruments do not play all notes of the harmonic series. This applies to every physical instrument (drum tuning as well, though it is not very melodic.) The melodic harmonic series in one picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_(music)#/media/File:Harmonic_series_intervals.png
  12. I played this footage through my Scarlett Solo Audio Interface to Logic X. There I used th Fortin Nameless Plugin (Neural DSP). I used my studio monitors to play the sound. There is a minimal amount of EQ also. I played "random riffs" also, but the specific riffs are mentioned in the description of the video. The color of the guitar is dark blue (sapphire), but looks more dark when there is less light.
  13. Stargazer

    Lovebites

    It's a blue Washburn with Floyd Rose tremolo system. I would have shown a picture, but there is no option to download a picture.
  14. This is a weird day. Stuff just keeps happening. Today there was this video in my Youtube feed. No expalantions required.
  15. Stargazer

    Lovebites

    I bought my first electric guitar. Then I stumbled upon THIS. This is a Japanese Metal band called Lovebites. But instead of guys only, it is a girl band. If you think about the costumes, it seems like a wedding band or something. But it is also a normal band. And the coolest thing is, that the guitarist uses the Emppu Vuorinen -signature guitar. And also, their logo is a golden pentagram (#White Metal). Enough said. And this is the song for the worst anime in the world (Vladlove) The Iron Maiden-song
  16. Update. I made a new channel just for relasing music. I deleted the material from the previous channel, that's why the link is broken. Maybe a mod can remove the link (it seemed difficult to delete the broken link). I used all my daily upload space. So I will add the missing songs (08 - Feel For You and the live songs) later. Note: I tried to upload an album stream version of the album, but it was blocked. It went through, when I uploaded the same songs individually and made a playlist. So maybe it is not a good idea to spend 20 hours on an album stream (somebody elses music.) Download the songs individually. Just a tip for saving time. Youtube didn't delete the album stream from my account, so seems like you can upload almost anything for personal use, even though the video would be blocked "worldwide", as the term stated. Anyway, here it is. Fugazzi, you can add the link to the "Century Child" -page as you wished earlier. It didn't activate the playlist. Maybe now. The playlist can be found on the channel. https://youtu.be/rVzO-eQh2zU Edit: It doeesn't automatically start playing the playlist as usual. Maybe next time. I think this is the link to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVzO-eQh2zU&list=PL35Pn1DA8jXVs1V8fyP4ow_MRxlPSYb4z Edit 2: For some reason I cannot upload profile pictures or anything on the channel right now. That's why there is a beautiful pink circle symbolizing my channel. I'll try again in 2 weeks.
  17. From a visual standpoint alone I like the "Century Child" -cover the most. It is very artistic, the purple water fall is a little bit "psychedelic"... and the last thing... I like women (as a male). I have confessed.
  18. Yes, what I meant was, that Tuomas has spiritual and religius themes in his works. I did'nt express myself very clearly. So even though he is "secular", he has spiritual themes in and I respect that he has the courage to address other than "safe" or "secular" themes. Maybe we could call him a "philosopher", who wants to do music about a lot of subjects (religion, science, art, theatre, and "cavemen".) I like that here are varities of subjects in his albums and work. I am maybe more on the "religious" side, but for some reason I like many songs on "Endless Forms Most Beautiful", and Richard Dawkin's voice is very soothing on the album :). As we say, we have "freedom of religion" in the finnish law. Everybody may believe what they want.
  19. I like the "Gravity Of Light" Album from Tarot. It is very well produced. Some older material is not very well produced. So "Gravity Of LIght" (2010) is more on the "easy to listen to" -side. So this thing with this New Age thing is this. It is a very broad term to describe, for instance, meditation music (just normal music.) The term has also to do with religion, especially Christianity. For instance, "Anette Olzon", wrote in her blog many years ago, that she was already visiting a (christian) church in Sweden (propably before joining Nightwish) So she was, and still is, "quote and quote" christian. Some of todays artist have a strong spiritual life (Christian or other religions.) But speaking about faith has always been a little bit of a taboo in the media. So the term "New Age" might refer to anything, but in the 90's it was especially a "throwing axe" term against "odd spiritual practices" in the Christian church realm (also in Finalnd). It has spread to refer to almost anything. So there is this small "New Age" -wing, which is almost like a cult. And this is only a small portion of this "subject". I know alot about these things, so I speak about some of these things in this context. Just enough. Then we need to dig really deep. In Finland, classical singing is closely related to medieval "church music". What I mean is, that classical techniques originate from medieval church singing. Nightwish has a lot of classical elements. Some of the elements date back to medieval classical composers, Bach etc. Bach was "religious." And many of the classical composers were, though not all of them. Bach wrote acronyms in his notes, which meant "To the glory of God." Note, Europe was under Catholicism, and medieval classical music is closely related to "Church music" at the time. The song "Dark Chest Of Wonders", for instance was written about Stephen King's book "This Dark Chest Of Wonders." The themes in this some share a striking resemblance to passages in the bible about "The Ark Of The Covenant". So some of the songs actually contain strong, heavy biblical, themes. For instance, blessings were a big thing (and still are) in jewish culture. So, "Bless The Child" refers quite heavily to "Judaism" (and other similar religions.) NOTE, Nightwish has close ties with "Within Temptaion." And Sharon Den Adel, of course is Jewish. Within Temptation contains strong "Judeo-Christian" themes also. But Tuomas doesn't want to represent himself "only" as a "Religious" person. He wants to compose music (which anybody and everybody can listen to.). So in short, stupid "theological" discussions can be found in Nightwish's And WIthin Temptaion's Youtube comments etc. For instance "how should an artist dress modestly" (this discussion has been active since the death of Christ.) That is why comments need to be disabled on some of the metal videos. On top of that, Heavy Metal as a genre accepts "expression of faith" by nature. Sharon Den Adel has said, that she feels "accepted" in the heavy metal scene (apart from some other genres.) In some cases or places if you say, that you are "Christian", "Buddhist", "Muslim" or whatever, you get the shoe instantly. Sometimes the other way around. So, if you say you are an atheist, you get the shoe from some "spiritual" places. This, as an introduction (TLDR). Edit: In many places, this text would be "banned" immediately, and I might recieve a personal ban just for posting this.
  20. Stargazer

    Lacuna Coil

    Sometimes I shut down my playstation and computer just because some discussion escalates too quickly. Then I read a book in silence for at least 15 minutes. Or I watch some movie from Disney+ (if the internet connection works.)
  21. I have been around people who have been deep into "New Age". 4/5 are women and all of them have been stunningly beautiful. And these kind of "movements" have quite a "narrow" scale conserning taste for women. I don't link all the videos here, but I'll mention a few people, so you get the picture. Note, not all of these people have been into "New Age", (the spiritual movement), but I just want to point out what kind of people we are talking about. Teal Swan (has a channel on Youtube) The Charismatic Voice (has her own Youtube channel) Tarja Turunen fits this category. There is this "one-liner". "There's a poison drop in this cup of man. To drink it is to follow the left-hand path." (Bless The Child, Century Child) "The Left Hand Path" is some kind of occultistic ritual, which exists in real life. So, Tarja had some kind of connection to this world. Marco also (some occultists really like "tarot" cards). But "tarot" cards in themselves are not inherently evil. I'll link some videos. The moderator may move the videos into the correct category, if necessary. Quite a "dark path" (as sung in "Wish I had an Angel"). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsgkgL445ts&t=291s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7N8MekeH20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90z24EmXSew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDnBw7EXa3w
  22. Kaljat tiskiin! It means something like "Bring the beer".
  23. Usually they break, so you have to buy new equipent. These are some of the risks, being a musician. That is why these "violin-in-the-rain" videos are filmed with a 65-dollar violin, so your Stradivarius doesn't get destroyed. Keyboard, bass, mixer, mic etc = instant loss of 10K or something. That is why musicians make deals with manufacturers. The artist promises to use their product on gig etc, and the supplier might "give" a new keyboard after the rain of destruction. A 4000-dollar keyboard is expensive for a single person. The keyboard manufacturer might make millions, so a couple of keyboards for a well-known artist doesn't cost very much for the "keyboard-company". BUT, the company doesn't want to waste 50K worth of equipment for just any indie-artist, who doesn't sell any records or who do not "get" any gigs. Everyone knows, which guitar Emppu used in the "End Of An Era" -concert, for instance. Everybody wants to buy that exact model. Just from a business standpoint. On top of that, getting a well-known artist to use your device is a great way to do "product-development". If the keyboard is missing some important physical connection port, for instance, the artist only has to call the manufacturer, so they will maybe upgrade the ports in the new model. OF COURSE, if you have 2 million on your personal bank account, you can just buy as many 4000-dollar keyboards as the shop is willing to sell. That way, you can use anything you want (well, almost).
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